Subaru announced this week that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has become the only automaker to earn a 2013 Top Safety Pick award for every model they built this year. This is the fourth consecutive year Subaru has achieved this rare feet.
Click here to read the entire press release issued by Subaru.
The 2013 Subaru Legacy and Outback models, produced after Aug. 2012, also won the IIHS's new Top Safety Pick+ awards as well.
"The strong ratings of our products in IIHS testing supports Subaru's belief in safety" said Thomas J. Doll, executive vice president and COO, Subaru of America, Inc in the press release. "Having 100% of our models listed as IIHS Top Safety Picks and now the Legacy and Outback models tested to TSP+ status demonstrates that."
IIHS created the Top Safety Pick+ award to further honor models that had "superior crash protection," and to win the award a vehicle must obtains good ratings for at least four of the five IIHS evaluation tests. The strict safety tests include a new Small Overlap test that monitors how a vehicle will handle frontal crashes. These tests put each vehicle through scenarios to see what would happen if the vehicle hit objects like a tree or guard rail.
Evaluations are based on results after a vehicle has crashed into a five-foot barrier going 40 mph.
"The Subaru safety story begins right from the inception of every Subaru vehicle," said Shiro Ohta, president and CEO of Subaru Canada, Inc. in a press statement. "We are very pleased that the IIHS has recognized us again as the only manufacturer with 2013 Top Safety Picks for all models."
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